# 民事執行法 / Civil Enforcement Act — 第八十七条 (Article 87) - Law: 民事執行法 (Civil Enforcement Act), 昭和五十四年法律第四号 - English title "Civil Enforcement Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第八十七条 (Article 87)（配当等を受けるべき債権者の範囲） — address `art-87` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八十七条（配当等を受けるべき債権者の範囲） — (Scope of Obligees Entitled to Receive a Distribution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87 **第一項** 売却代金の配当等を受けるべき債権者は、次に掲げる者とする。 art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1 Obligees entitled to receive a distribution or payment from the proceeds of the sale are the following: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 差押債権者（配当要求の終期までに強制競売又は一般の先取特権の実行としての競売の申立てをした差押債権者に限る。） art-87/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-1 an attaching obligee (limited one that has filed a petition for a compulsory auction or an auction to enforce a general statutory lien by the deadline for a distribution demand); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 配当要求の終期までに配当要求をした債権者 art-87/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-2 obligees that have filed a distribution demand by the deadline to demand distribution; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 差押え（最初の強制競売の開始決定に係る差押えをいう。次号において同じ。）の登記前に登記された仮差押えの債権者 art-87/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-3 the obligee in any provisional seizure that is registered before registration of the seizure (meaning the seizure resulting from the first order commencing compulsory auction proceedings; the same applies in the following item); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 差押えの登記前に登記（民事保全法第五十三条第二項に規定する仮処分による仮登記を含む。）がされた先取特権（第一号又は第二号に掲げる債権者が有する一般の先取特権を除く。）、質権又は抵当権で売却により消滅するものを有する債権者（その抵当権に係る抵当証券の所持人を含む。） art-87/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-4 obligees holding any statutory lien (excluding general statutory liens held by the obligees stated in item (i) or item (ii)), pledge or mortgage which is registered (including provisional registration based on the provisional disposition prescribed in Article 53, paragraph (2) of the Civil Preservation Act) before registration of the order of the seizure and are extinguishable through the sale (including the holder of mortgage instruments connected to that mortgage). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項第四号に掲げる債権者の権利が仮差押えの登記後に登記されたものである場合には、その債権者は、仮差押債権者が本案の訴訟において敗訴し、又は仮差押えがその効力を失つたときに限り、配当等を受けることができる。 art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-2 If the right of the obligee stated in item (iv) of the preceding paragraph has been registered after registration of a provisional seizure, that obligee may receive distribution or payment only when the obligee effecting a provisional seizure has been defeated in the suit on the merits or the provisional seizure has ceased to be effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 差押えに係る強制競売の手続が停止され、第四十七条第六項の規定による手続を続行する旨の裁判がある場合において、執行を停止された差押債権者がその停止に係る訴訟等において敗訴したときは、差押えの登記後続行の裁判に係る差押えの登記前に登記された第一項第四号に規定する権利を有する債権者は、配当等を受けることができる。 art-87/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-3 If proceedings for a compulsory auction involving a seizure have been stayed and a judicial decision to continue the proceedings has been issued under Article 47, paragraph (6), and if the attaching obligee subject to the stay is defeated in a suit or other dispute connected with that stay, obligees holding any right prescribed in paragraph (1), item (iv) which is registered after registration of the seizure and before registration of a seizure connected with the judicial decision of continuation may receive distribution or payment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-87/par-1/item-3: 次号 → 民事執行法 第八十七条第一項第四号 (Article 87, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-87/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-4 - art-87/par-1/item-4: 民事保全法第五十三条第二項 → e-Gov law 401AC0000000091, 第五十三条第二項 (Article 53, paragraph (2)), art-53/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-87/par-1/item-4: 第一号 → 民事執行法 第八十七条第一項第一号 (Article 87, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-87/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-1 - art-87/par-1/item-4: 第二号 → 民事執行法 第八十七条第一項第二号 (Article 87, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-87/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-2 - art-87/par-2: 前項第四号 → 民事執行法 第八十七条第一項第四号 (Article 87, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-87/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-4 - art-87/par-3: 第四十七条第六項 → 民事執行法 第四十七条第六項 (Article 47, paragraph (6)), art-47/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-47/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-47/par-6 - art-87/par-3: 第一項第四号 → 民事執行法 第八十七条第一項第四号 (Article 87, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-87/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民事執行法 第四十九条第二項第一号（開始決定及び配当要求の終期の公告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-49/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-49/par-2/item-1 - 民事執行法 第四十九条第二項第二号（開始決定及び配当要求の終期の公告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-49/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-49/par-2/item-2 - 民事執行法 第八十五条第一項（配当表の作成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-85/par-1 - 民事執行法 第八十七条第一項第三号（配当等を受けるべき債権者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-3 - 民事執行法 第八十七条第一項第四号（配当等を受けるべき債権者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-1/item-4 - 民事執行法 第八十七条第二項（配当等を受けるべき債権者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-2 - 民事執行法 第八十七条第三項（配当等を受けるべき債権者の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-87/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-87/par-3 - 民事執行法 第百十一条第一項（強制競売の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-enforcement-act/art-111/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/354AC0000000004/art-111/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民事執行法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/354AC0000000004/20260521_505AC0000000053), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Enforcement Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4900/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 204 — 民事執行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19